If I have any fault, it is digression

“The real secret, though, is that nobody belongs, whether they are natives or not. After expulsion from paradise all humans are in exile. You…

— Andrei Codrescu

“It seemed that digression was the true principle of the universe, that the only real subject was the way the subject kept changing.”

— Salman Rushdie

The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him.

— Mason Cooley

Digression is my passion. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is using those narratives as a…

— Erik Larson

“The Duchess looked at Chloe with a look that said, You had the chance to tell him, but you chose to carry on the…

— David Walliams

“I have digressed, which is also the kind of writer I would become.”

— John Irving

“Nothing is more to the point than a good digression.”

— Ralph Caplan

“For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays…

— Ray Bradbury

Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody…

— Anonymous

“That digression business got on my nerves. I don't now. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting…

— J.D. Salinger

The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Digression is the soul of wit.

— Ray Bradbury

“the feeling of being a digression not the link in the argument, a new direction, an offshoot, the limb going on elsewhere, and liking…

— Jorie Graham

“(This is not a digression.)”

— N.K. Jemisin

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

— Ray Bradbury